D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.